Missouri Resources

Missouri Secretary of State The Secretary of State office is the place for genealogist and family historians to start there search for family information. The archives have a large collection of database online.

Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 through 1958 This is a very good collection of Death Certificate for Clark County about 5,000 person [19 March 2008], but if you can not find the person you are looking for you need to check Iowa and Illinoisa records.

Land Patents: 1831 through 1969 The State of Missouri could not tax the Land Patents for five years, and the archives has record as to when the county was sent the tax notice. The state was given "Township School Land, 1820 through 1900" [one section per township "not potlical"] and the proced from the sale of this land went to the counties to support the school system.